The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal by a Canadian-born former Guantanamo detainee who was seeking to wipe away his war crimes convictions, including for killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan. Omar Khadr had waived his right to appeal when he pleaded guilty in 2010 to charges that included murder. But his lawyers argued […]

Mohammad Mokhber, was appointed acting president Monday after the death of Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash.
Iran’s constitution specifies that – if approved by the supreme leader – the first vice president will assume acting presidential powers if the president dies. Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, tapped Mokhber on Monday to ensure the election of a new president within 50 days, state media reported.

The Dali, the huge container ship that collapsed Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in March, closing Baltimore Harbor, will be refloated and moved Monday, a significant milestone in the cleanup of the wreckage, authorities said.
The unified command in charge of operations at the site of the collapse said officials hope to move the vessel at high tide Monday morning to a marine terminal about 2 1/2 miles from where it struck a bridge pier, causing the collapse.
Refloating and removing the Dali appears to be one of the last and largest steps in the eight-week effort to reopen the harbor and its shipping channel after the collapse on March 26.

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Thousands gathered at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv for a rally demanding the release of Hamas captives, in a demonstration that was joined by international figures, including US Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and famed American TV host Dr. Phil McGraw. In a pre-recorded video, Clinton addressed the crowd, […]

Following the helicopter crash in eastern Iran on Sunday when the death of the mass murderer, the Butcher of Tehran, seemed likely but was not confirmed, someone posed an intriguing shaila to HaGaon HaRav Yitzchak Zilberstein. “Should one make a bracha of הטוב והמטיב upon hearing the news of the death of this enemy of […]

President Biden declared Sunday that things got “kind of bad” when he was vice president during the COVID-19 pandemic — even though the virus hit more than three years after he left office.
The 81-year-old Biden, who finished his eight years as Barack Obama’s veep in January 2017, suggested he was still in post at the time of the outbreak during a campaign event with the NAACP.
“When I was vice president, things were kind of bad during the pandemic and what happened was, Barack said to me, ‘Go to Detroit! Help fix it,’” Biden said.
“Well, the poor mayor, he’s spent more time with me than he ever thought he’s gonna have to!” the president added.

British authorities and the country’s public health service knowingly exposed tens of thousands of patients to deadly infections through contaminated blood and blood products, and hid the truth about the disaster for decades, an inquiry into the U.K.’s infected blood scandal found Monday. An estimated 3,000 people in the United Kingdom are believed to have […]

Hours after an International Criminal Court prosecutor sought arrest warrants for senior Israeli officials alongside Hamas terrorists, and after members of Congress denounced that decision, U.S. President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken released statements.
“The ICC prosecutor’s application for arrest warrants against Israeli leaders is outrageous,” the president said in a very terse statement. “Let me be clear: whatever this prosecutor might imply, there is no equivalence—none—between Israel and Hamas. We will always stand with Israel against threats to its security.”
Washington “fundamentally rejects” the announcement from the United Nations body in The Hague, Blinken wrote in a heftier statement.

The decision by the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to seek arrest warrants for Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant “is beyond outrageous and shows the extent to which the international judicial system is in danger of collapsing, Israeli President Isaac Herzog said on Monday.
“Taken in bad faith, this one-sided move represents a unilateral political step that emboldens terrorists around the world, and violates all the basic rules of the court according to the principle of complementarity and other legal norms,” he said.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin committed Monday to keeping U.S. weapons moving to Ukraine as Kyiv faces one of its toughest moments against a renewed assault by Russia. Austin and as many as 50 defense leaders from Europe and around the world were meeting Monday to coordinate more military aid to Ukraine, as Kyiv tries to […]

When a small conference was held this spring in Israel’s heartland on the laws related to the Parah Adumah, both Hamas and Hezbollah posted the ad for the event on their Telegram pages.
Just months earlier, a Hamas spokesman in Gaza had chosen the 100th day of the Israel-Hamas war to cite the relocation of five red heifers to Israel from the Lone Star State as the reason for the Oct. 7 massacre.

Israeli politicians on Monday slammed the decision of the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, to issue arrest warrants for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for “war crimes” along with the leaders of the murderous Hamas terror organization. Minister Benny Gantz said: “The State of Israel is […]

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